Have a Little Grace For Yourself

They say you can't have grace for someone else unless you have grace for yourself first. But that isn't me at all.
I find I have way more grace for everyone BUT me. Can you relate?
If you can then you probably know what it's like to tell someone it's okay, it was an accident/mistake, and of course you forgive them. But you're not so nice on yourself. When you make a mistake, when you mess up it's, "why couldn't I have done better?", "I always mess up", "I'm never going to be good enough". There's. No. Grace.

Friends, this is not the way it is supposed to be! And I'm talking to myself here. I'm terrible at this. But I know it's wrong and I want to change.
God says,
“...You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭19:19‬ ‭ESV‬‬

AS YOURSELF. Interesting that there's this nice little assumption that we love ourselves. Why did God say that? Because loving yourself is important!

So basically we need to love ourselves. Not be in love with yourself. But have a healthy love and respect for yourself. What does that look like? I don't really know. But I have a good bet that it doesn't look like verbally beating yourself up whenever you mess up.

Give yourself a little grace. I'm going to.